In a time where it seems slap-stick comedy is all that is made anymore, Juno delivers a fresh mature method of delivering those "lol's". The cast performs superbly making it feel like your in the movie itself while the clever singer/songwriter music sparks a cheerful note within the audience. If you like Indie type movies, you'll love this one.
I must admit, gelatto did sound but it wasn't worth it. The gelatto had been refrozen and you could tell by the gritty ice crystals present. This didn't bother me as bad as the price did. I paid $8.63 for this frozen ounce of milk! I got robbed
As you can see there was a semifinal and a final match up. The road was difficult to say the least, after finishing the regular season at 11-3 the last two weeks became a tale of mental exhaustion. By the way I am the "Mo Birias".
What you want to look at is the projected numbers for me and my opponent. Then just look at the top two players for my opponent. If you could have bet that Tony Romo and Randy Moss would have the worst weeks of the season together when I needed them to, the odds would have been 1,000,000 to 1. The real hero however was my kicker, Mason Crosby. For the championship I was the underdog again
I don't know how I pulled this one out of the hat but somehow I did. From dropping Chicago's defense which had a great game to picking up Tennessee's defense who had an even better game. My kicker had a horrible game but his average for the last two weeks is still amazing. And Adrian Peterson of the Vikings, on my opponents team, having one of the worst games of his short carer. 
It's been a "Hot Ass Minute" since I've seen a movie of this caliber. In fact the last movie I saw of this caliber was Children Of Men. As good as that may sound, Children Of Men ended up loosing to The Departed which I thought was a far less superior movie. For that reason, I really hope that it does not follow the path that Children Of Men traveled. 
Our seats to the game were pretty good, angled to the goal line about 30 rows up, 1st tier. They weren't right next to the field but hey no complaints here. Getting home on the other hand...quite the opposite. Of the 62,000 people there, about 20,000 had to take the BART. It took a good 30minutes to walk a total of 100 feet to get to the BART.
Saturday was the annual Santarchy or SantaCon event in San Francisco. Joel, Witter and I dressed up like half-assed santas and joined in on the phone. We started at pier 39 in San Fran and boarded a ferry headed for the ghetto, Jack London Square in Oakland. The rest of the day was spent going from pub to pub to pub, when the rest of the santas were gearing up to head to Berkley, we decided to call it a day. We were home by 3 in the afternoon, Santarchy is no joke, you meet up at 8am and go all day.
It's been a long day. Got up around 7:30 to pack for this trip to San Francisco, didn't leave till around noon. Took a long ride from Vegas to San Fran in a 2007 Corvette with Joel. It was like 2 Tiger Sharks in a sardine can. The funny thing is according to the manual, the Vette is only supposed to hold 400lbs of total weight (cargo + passenger), let me be the first to tell you the Vette can easily take more than 400lbs.
We get to Vallejo to drop off the Vette and all of a sudden the car won't shift into park, an hour later the Vette is sitting in the service bay of Chevy and we're in Brian Witter's Jeep heading into the city. Unload the goods and hit the local Italian joint around the corner to see the Giada look alike. Joel got his Anchor Steam and all was good. Tomorrow is some sort of Santa pub crawl, should be interesting.
I've been waiting for this movie to come out for sometime now. I've never gone to a 11:59PM showing before but had to make an exception for this movie on 2 accounts:
Turned out pretty eventful for a Wednesday night. Met up with Adam and MMG n headed over to Sedona. Then to the Road Runner. Then we decided to meet up with Joel and some of his friends at the Suncoast to play some Bingo. Talk about fun. While waiting I hit another Royal Flush, 2nd in 2 weeks, this time on Nickels so it was only worth $200. Oh well, I'm not complaining.
Bingo on the other hand was somewhat of a disappointment. I had no idea what I was doing so I just gave the lady $50 and told her to hook it up. Next thing I know, I'm playing 84 cards. Good thing they have these new tablet like systems which allow you to do nothing but sit there and wait to yell "BINGO!" Somehow, I'm still trying to do the math on it but somehow, none of the 6 of us got a single win. There was maybe 30 people there for the 11pm game, and we had 6 people. A total of at least 200 cards between us 6, and not once did we win. It was still fun though and can't wait to do it again next Wednesday, this time I'm only going to spend $20. Who's in for next Wednesday?
You don't have to be a football fan to know who Joe Namath is. If you live in America I would say 99% of everyone in this country has heard his name. I'm not here to tell you about his carer, no, I'm here to tell you that he is graduating. Thats right, Namath was 15 credits short of a degree when he left for the pros back in the day. He has since gone back to Alabama and taken classes to finish his degree. The legend was only 15 credits short, but took a staggering 5 years to earn those 15 credits. At a pace of 3 credits a year, I can say even I am better at something than Joe Namath.its (Wal-Mart's) core low-to-middle-income customers "remain concerned about their finances, especially the cost of living," in light of the housing slowdown and a tighter credit market.
more money, put in $20 and it was taking forever so I asked to borrow $20. I lost it in a matter of seconds. After a minute I asked for $20 more. He had owed me money because I had payed for dinner, so anyways I get down to about $4.00 left in the machine when I hold a Jack and Ten of Spades. Hit the deal button and I swear to god that it took about 2 minutes for the King to turn over, then the Queen, then the Ace...it was like it was in slow motion. I know your supposed to act like it happens all the time, like when you hit a home run in baseball, but the first time is the first time is the first time. And the first time is special so the first thing I could get myself to do was grab my dad and put him in a head lock. So ya, I hit my first royal tonight and it took a good 30minutes to collect my lavish winnings. All $1253.75 of it.
go out to the Wolf Pack. After the win against La Tech yesterday the Wolf Pack of Nevada became bowl eligible. And thanks to Hawai'i going undefeated last night they received a BCS bowl bid which means there was 3 WAC-tie in bowl games available, the pack being the 3rd team down the list got a bid to play in the New Mexico bowl on December 22, 2007 at 4:30pm. The game can be seen on ESPN and ESPN HD. If your any kind of football fan I urge you to watch this game as Nevada is one hell of team, coming within seconds of beating both Hawai'i and Boise St. this year. Nevada will be ranked in the next two years so watch them when you have a chance to on TV, it doesn't come often.Due to the majority of one-way streets and the inconsistent freeway on-ramps, at any given moment 12 percent of drivers in Portland, Oregon are lost or off of their intended path.Good to know
and NO the glasses aren't part of the deal but come one, look at how sweet those look!
You had to know it was coming. Perry Moore, the man behind "The Chronicles of Narnia", has come out with a new book. This book is sure to raise some eyebrows and be the talk of many to come at it has already been picked up by the makers of Spiderman to make it to the big screen. The books name...Hero. The part that makes it open to scrutiny is that the "hero" is openly Gay, as is Perry Moore. I'm not saying I have anything against this, lord knows I try to keep this blog unbiased, I'm saying that is "Brokeback Mountain" received such an uproar, what will a movie that kids will want to go see bring. I haven't read the book nor do I plan on it, "fantasy" type material just doesn't appeal to me. But if you've read it or plan on it, let me know. Answer the poll with as well, I want to know what other people think, and it is anonymous, I wont even know who voted for what.
Last night it all came to an end...another season of ABC's hit reality show "Dancing With the Stars". I was without cable for much of this season so I only got to see the last two episodes. In case you don't know Helio Castroneves took home the hardware. Let's all be honest, thats who we wanted to win...1) because hes just awesome and 2) because he was dancing with the hottest girl, Julianne Hough.
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on a scavenger hunt to find all my belongings and move them all back to Las Vegas. Thats right, after 5 years of being out of this city, I am finally back to this oasis in the desert. Thanks to Joel for taking the amazingly boring drive from Portland to Vegas in the Uhaul with me.
I was privileged enough to go to my first NBA game last night. Nick Fazekas, #20 on the Mavericks, was kind enough to get me tickets for the game. I can't complain about the seating, they weren't court seats but they were far from nose bleeds. In fact I think they were a perfect level to see the whole game without having to move too much. In fact they were good enough that I got offered $100 from a scalper for them. Thats a first, usually the scalper asks if you need tickets, not if he can buy yours.
Unfortunately for the Mavericks, They didn't win, it was kind of a lopsided win that the scoreboard wont show. The Blazers will be good this year with or without Greg Oden, makes you wonder what he will bring to the team when he is healthy. Fortunately for myself however because the Mavericks were pretty much out of it I got to see Nick get some PT. He only played about a minute but came away with 2 boards and 2 points, not bad for one minute, and a paycheck of about $5,243.90 per game. I did happen to get one of his rebounds and his 2 points on film...so here they are. Click anywhere other than the play arrow in the middle to open on a bigger (youtube) screen.
For some reason there was no college football being shown here in Portland on the channels I get so I decided to stumble downtown and go to my first Saturday Market in years. There were hoards of people just out having a good time. It's amazing what vendors try and sell these day, one guy was selling postcards with simple letters drawn on in sharpie marker for $2.00 each. His cost...less than $0.02.
Vendors lined the street to sell food from all over the world. From Africa, to the South, to Vietnam, to Greece, to Thailand...which is where I picked up a plate of Pad Thai with a Thai Iced Tea for $5.50, what a deal, the food was amazing. It wasn't just the food from the Thailand booth that was cheap, the food everywhere was cheap, it took me a few minutes to decide between the Thai or the $2.00 huge corn dog, in the end it was the Thai Iced Tea that was the deciding factor for me.
WOW! This little bastard just does it all. I was walking through Costco trying to find something to buy so I can get cash back and use that cash to purchase a delectable hot dog. Well after searching and searching, I came across this bad boy and for $35.99 it seemed to be a good deal and promised to take care of some of the "tasks" I needed taking care of. I finally got to using it and lets just say I am amazed. The Phillips Bodygroom lives up to its name.
I feel privileged to say that I spent a day on the beautiful Oregon coast in the town of Newport. I must say that I always thought the ocean was the ocean and beaches were beaches, but thats the California ocean. You see in California you go to the beach and its just a bunch of kids running around and it smells like shit. Thats not the case with Newport, Oregon. In Newport you don't see kids running around everywhere. Plus the water is too cold for them and extremely violent as compared to the slow gentle waves of the California coast.
I start taking pictures when all of a sudden my camera decided to tell me that its out of memory. A 4GB card full, had I not have purchased my laptop only a day before the trip, I would have been in quite a pickle. Do I try and find a place that sells memory cards and fork out the money for a new one? Or do I go through my pictures and decided which ones are worth deleting? I mean If I took them then they surely are there for a reason, luckily all I had to do was walk back to the car and upload everything off the camera onto my laptop, then head back out to the edge of the U.S.+036.JPG)
Newport is one of those towns that make you wish you had a place there, just to get away from it all once in a while. Just sit out on the beach and forget about everything. The beach is lined with motels, and hotels but nothing stands out like the old beach houses overlooking the water. Physically they are beat, but aesthetically they are pleasant.+090.JPG)
I spent a good 2 hours out there, doing nothing in particular. I wish I had time to surf as its been so long, but the waves out there were probably a bit more than I can handle. Unfortunately time went by fast and before I knew it it was time to go. I took over 200 pictures and a few movies, and wish I could have taken more.
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Don't get me wrong, Nike's "Just Do It" campaign was brilliant but a deodorant company now going for a "Go For It" campaign? First off its a deodorant, and second of all its practically its saying the same exact thing as "Just Do It" 
